William Wordsworth was a famous English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. He was born in 1770 in England’s Lake District. Wordsworth believed that nature has the power to teach, heal ...
Has there ever been a great poet as tempting to laugh at as William Wordsworth? The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him. In 1807, when Wordsworth published “Poems, in ...
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism To Wordsworth Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never ...
A stately sonnet, composed early in the industrial revolution, renders the crowded sprawl of the metropolis as a Romantic idyll Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not ...